S61 OULPEPER's COMPLBTK HIRBAL. 



P^oca.— This sort is often cultivated oo garden borders, 

 and OD other cultivated grounds. 



Time, — It flowers in July and August 



SPURGE (WOOD.y-iEuphorbia Amygdaloidei,) 



Descrip. — The stalks are numerous and firm, they are 

 thick, upright, and round, and have a reddish bark, and 

 under that a green one ; they grow a yard high, and not 

 branched, except where they spread at the top for flower- 

 ing. The leaves are large and numerous ; they are lone, 

 narrow, and soft to the touch ; their colour is a deep greyisn 

 green, and they are hairy on the upper side, but more so 

 underneath, and their middle rib is red toward the base. 

 The flowers are greenish, small, and very numerous, they 

 ftand at the top of the stalks on small divided branch es 

 which spread into a kind of umbel, and which have at their 

 insertions and divisions, shorter leaves than those on the 

 stalks. The figure and disposition of the petals of the 

 flower, form numerous crescents, insomuch, that the whole 

 top in flower has a beautiful appearance. The whole plant 

 is full of a caustic milky juice. 



Place, — This is frequent in woods and on heaths. 



Time, — It flowers in June. 



SQUILL.— (ASciZZa Maritima,) (S, Ornithogalvm,) 



Called also Sea Onion. 



Descrip. — This has a perennial root, consisting of a very 

 large coated bulb, full of a thick slimy juice, and a large 

 cluster of long, thick, white fibres, proceedinor from its 

 base. The leaves are three or four inches broad, of a 

 thick juicy substance, smooth on the surface, entire at the 

 edfi:e& and of a fine brijfht green colour. The stem some- 

 times grows to be three feet high, is round, slender, and 

 of a tender succulent substaoce. The flowers grow in 

 longish spikes, and they are small and white. 



P ac«.— -It is a native of the sea-coasts of Italy and Spain, 

 but here it is found only in the gardens of the curious. 



Time, — It flowers here in the middle of summer. 



Government and Virtues. — This is a hot biting martial 

 plant. The root is bitter to the taste, and so acrid as to 

 blister the skin if it is much handled ; taken internally in 

 doses of a few grains, it promotes the expectoration and 

 urine; in larger doses it vomits, and sometimes purges. It 

 is one of the most certain diuretics in dropsical cases, and 



